Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology

by André Nusselder

Behind our computer screens we are all cyborgs: through fantasy we can understand our involvement in virtual worlds.

Cyberspace is first and foremost a mental space. Therefore we need to take a psychological approach to understand our experiences in it. In Interface Fantasy, Andr Nusselder uses the core psychoanalytic notion of fantasy to examine our relationship to computers and digital technology. Lacanian psychoanalysis considers fantasy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262513005
• ISBN13: 9780262513005
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher